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Quotes About Truth

When deeds speak, words are nothing.
~ African Proverb
Let the public discover that 5 per cent of your advertising is exaggeration, and it immediately suspects the other 95 per cent.
~ Walter E. Weld, 1918
There are some, however, that know the prejudice of mankind in favour of modest sincerity. The vendor of the beautifying fluid sells a lotion that repels pimples, washes away freckles, smooths the skin, and plumps the flesh; and yet, with a generous abhorrence of ostentation, confesses, that it will not restore the bloom of fifteen to a lady of fifty.
~ Samuel Johnson, 1759
All that can be said with truth of this Absolute and Supreme Reality is that IT IS. This must suffice.
~ Israel Regardie
It is the truth, but not the whole truth; and half a truth is as bad as a lie.
~ Israel Shamir
One prays for life , life means free choice and freedom is mystery . If one knew the truth how could there be freedom
~ Issac Bashevis Singer
Mislim da ste i vi uvideli kako je teško sagledati i najo?igledniju istinu, kako ?ovek, uopšte, sporo u?i i kako skupo pla?a to malo što u svom kratkom veku nau?i.
~ Ivo Andri?
Nikad nisam voleo preteranu ose?ajnost ni ta polusjajna, sumnjiva stanja duha u kojima nas uobrazilja tako lako odvodi na na svoje pogrešne i jalove puteve.
~ Ivo Andri?
Tek jesen je pokazala kako su plitkog korena i kratkog veka bile moje obmane. I ne samo jesen. Jelene je nestalo iz svih mojih godišnjih doba.
~ Ivo Andri?
Nešto od ljudske istine ostane uvek za one koji ih strpljivo slušaju ili ?itaju.
~ Ivo Andri?
I ako nas niko ne prevari, prevarimo se mi sami…
~ Ivo Andri?
Brak je vec u pocetku stao da se pokazuje kao ono sto i jeste u ovakvim slucajevima:strahovita zabluda sa jedne strane, a strahovita prevara sa druge.
~ Ivo Andri?
A kad god mi tako mislimo da su nam se za nešto otvorile o?i, to obi?no zna?i da smo ih za stotinu drugih stvari zatvorili.
~ Ivo Andri?
Imaju tri stvari koje se ne daju sakriti, a to su: ljubav, kašalj i siromaštvo.
~ Ivo Andri?
Nije najve?a budala onaj koji ne zna ?itati, nego onaj koji misli da je sve što pro?ita istina.
~ Ivo Andri?
Uzaludno i pogrešno je tražiti smisao u bezna?ajnim a prividno važnim doga?ajima koji se dešavaju oko nas, nego ga treba tražiti u onim naslagama koja stole?a stvaraju oko nekoliko glavnih legendi ?ove?anstva- legendi o prvom grehu, potopu, Prometeju, Sinu ?ove?ijem
~ Ivo Andri?
Nije najve?a budala onaj koji ne umije da ?ita, nego onaj koji misli da je sve ono što pro?ita istina.
~ Ivo Andri?
Lepota, najve?a od svih varki ?ovekovih; ako je ne uzmeš - nema je, ako pokušaš da je uzmeš - prestaje da postoji.
~ Ivo Andri?
Toliko je živa kod slabog ?ovjeka potreba da se vara i tako neograni?ena mogu?nost da bude prevaren.
~ Ivo Andri?
Those whom the devil would tempt, He tells not a lie, but a lesser truth.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
We must fill our minds with a truth loud enough to drown our the incessant defeatist voice of the negative ego.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
As you move through today's practice, give yourself permission to tell the low-down, dirty truth about what you are thinking, feeling, and believing. What part of yourself can you see in your partner/ex-partner? And are you willing to forgive it in you? Love brings up everything unlike itself. This means the deeper you love someone, the more unloving parts of yourself will be revealed.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
If I am seeing something that is blocking my awareness of love, it is an image of a false idea that I created and only forgiveness will dissolve it.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
Learning to trust yourself means focusing on the good you are, the good you have, and the good you desire so that the truth can heal all error thought and allow you to see the blessing hidden in all that you have been through, gone through, and grown through.
~ Iyanla Vanzant